Hardware Reference
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Solution
Fortunately, you have all you need to get running: your Bone and a USB cable. Plug the
USB cable into your host computer (Mac, Windows, or Linux) and plug the mini-USB con-
nector side into the USB connector near the Ethernet connector on the Bone, as shown in
Figure 1-10. Plugging BeagleBone Black into a USB port
The four blue
USER
LEDs will begin to blink, and in 10 or 15 seconds, you'll see a new
USB drive appear on your host computer.
Figure 1-11
shows how it will appear on a Win-
dows host, and Linux and Mac hosts will look similar. The Bone acting like a USB drive
and the files you see are located on the Bone.
